Need Help with Speaker Cable ID. What are they?

"Stereo5
It certainly isn't an Audioquest cable. clueless myself."

Actually it looks exactly like the original Audioquest Midnight, from the early '90's I believe. The original,not the + or '3' iterations. I had a pair of those in my system for years. Same cotton insulation, same dark blue outer cover, same looking conductors.

....very stiff and a bear to work with I might add.

Here's a link with a pic from when I sold mine
http://www.polkaudio.com/forums/showthread.php?118952-Speaker-cable&highlight=audioquest+midnight

Midnight is quite a few strands in each conductor of solid core.

.....Meaning they weren't wafer thin strands. The original Midnight had strands exactly like his pic. Maybe the later + and hyperlitz versions didn't.

Zd542
"Its not Midnight. The OP's picture has 4 internal multi-strand conductors. 2 red and 2 black. The origional AQ Midnight looked similar but it wasn't the same. All of the solid core conductors, while smaller than typical, each had their own jacket. And yes, they were not configured like later versions of midnight. The strands were braided similar to how Kimber's look. Its easy enough to verify. Just call AQ and have them look at the OP's pic."

I'm not going to belabor on this any more. I owned the cable for years and re-terminated it many times. I am intimately familiar with it. Each strand on my version, and the one the OP has shown in the pic (which matches my pic BTW....did you look?) is absolutely not individually insulated. Each insulated conductor is comprised of around 12-15 fairly thick strands. And as a matter of fact,I did did email Audioquest on this cable trying to find more about it because it didn't match their later versions with the + signs or the hyperlitz. It was made so long ago the guy I got wasn't even familiar with it.

Did you mean the link didn't work or that the pic doesn't help?
Here's the link and I did test it but you have to cut and paste it of course.
http://www.polkaudio.com/forums/showthread.php?118952-Speaker-cable&highlight=audioquest+midnight